Whats Active Directory schema?
Think of Active Directory’s schema as the recipe book for Active Directory. It describes all of the objects, object classes, and properties within Active Directory. It controls what types of objects can exist in Active Directory, as well as what properties can exist within those objects. Active Directory’s schema covers your network’s entire forest structure. All Active Directory trees, domains, and domain controllers within an Active Directory forest share the same schema. Active Directory comes with many preexisting object classes and properties. For example, within the user object, you’ll find fields that describe the user’s name, location, group membership, and security rights. All new user objects that you create are built off of a base user-object class template that the schema defines. This gives the same basic attributes to each occurrence of the user object throughout the schema. If you look through a basic object’s properties, such as the user object, you’ll see dozens of dif
